Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.”

— Virginia Woolf

It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.

— Virginia Woolf

Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done.…

— Lewis Black

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and…

— Donna Tartt

“remember, you were a writer before you ever put pen to paper. just because you were not writing externally. does not mean you were…

— Nayyirah Waheed

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

— Joni Mitchell

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi…

— Horace

“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to be known…

— Charles Bukowski

“Sweat, blood, and tears mean nothing in your writing if you’re not willing to burn what doesn’t work.”

— Jason E. Hodges

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's…

— Earl Sweatshirt

Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style that I…

— Gary Giddins

Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't…

— William Zinsser